Exploration & Discovery: The American West
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For additional titles in this category (in German & French) see the Univ of Gottingen site | various | Graphic | UGoettingen | ||
Bibliography of the Fur Trade in the American Rocky Mountain West, 1800-1850 | n.d. | Html | Free | MountnMen | |
Fur Trade Business Records [Rocky Mtn Outfit; St. Louis Mo. Fur Co.; Columbia River Trading Co.; etc.] | various | Html | Free | MountnMen | |
The Santa Fe Trail Map: Central Section | 1911-12 | graphic | Free | KansasCol | |
The Santa Fe Trail Map: Eastern Section | graphic | Free | KansasCol | ||
The Santa Fe Trail Map: Western Section | 1911-12 | graphic | Free | KansasCol | |
Ajax, William, 1832-1899 | Journals, 1861-1863 (vol 2) [mormon emigration; missionary, pioneer; overland, Neb. to Salt Lake City] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Allen, Clifford Paynter [of Phila.] | Pilgrimage of Mary Commandery No. 36 [RR trip to the Knights Templar's 1904 convention, San Francisco] | 1904 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Anderson, John C., d. 1913 | Journal [1866] [journey, St. Louis to Va. City, MT, 1866] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Anon. | Much esteemed friends, 1850 [wagon train, Mo. to Platte River; dining on buffalo] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Anon. | Overland trail diary, 1860-1862 [by ox team from IA to Calif.; Oregon Trail via Wyoming, Utah, Nev.] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Anon. | Tour to California overland, 1849 [Mo. to Ft. Kearny w/Ankin Company by mule train; traded w/Dakota Indians] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Ashley, William H. | 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers (Diary, 1825; Narrative, 1825; business records, 1825) | 1918 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Astor, John Jacob | A Journey in Other Worlds | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS | |
Astor, John Jacob | A Journey in Other Worlds [illus.] | 1894 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
Baegert, Johann Jakob, S.J. | Observations in Lower California | 1772/1979 | Html | Free | UCaPress |
Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Report upon the Colorado River of the West | 1860 Wash. | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Ball, John | The Autobiography of John Ball: Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832-35 [battle w/Blackfeet] | 1925 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Ballantyne, Robert Michael | Handbook to the New Gold Fields: Account of the Richness & Extent of the Fraser & Thompson River Gold Mines | 1858 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Barber, John Warner (1798-1885) & Henry | The loyal West in the times of the rebellion; an encyclopedia & panorama of the western states & territories ( | 1865 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 | All the western states & territories, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific: their history from the earliest tim | 1867 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Barlow, John Whitney, 1838-1914 | Letter from the Sec of War, accompanying an engineer report of a reconnaissance of the Yellowstone River in 18 | 1872] | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Bartlett, Richard A | Great Surveys Of The American West | 1980 | NetLibr (Ebsco) | 19.95 | UOklahomaPr |
Baxley, Henry Willis, 1803-76 | What I saw on the west coast of South & North America, & at the Hawaiian Islands | 1865 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Beall, Thomas J | Recollecitons of William Craig [1857] | 1918 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Bemis, Stephen Allen, 1828-1919 [frm Mas | Recollections of a Long & Somewhat Uneventful Life | 1932 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Bidwell, John | Addresses, Reminiscences, Etc. of General John Bidwell [overland journey to California; Prohibition Party cand | 1907 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Blakiston, T. W. | Report of the exploration of two passes through the Rocky Mountains in 1858 | 1859Woolwch | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
Bliss, Orley Dwight, 1839-1930 | Autobiography & diary, 1864-1865 [mormon pioneer; journey to Nebraska to gather the poor to Utah] | unpub | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Borthwick, J. D | Three Years in California [1851-1854] | 1857 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Borthwick, J.D. | Three years in California; w/eight illus. by the author | 1857 Edinb | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Bowles, Samuel | Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, & the Pacific States | 1866 | Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
Bowles, Samuel | Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, & the Pacific States w/Speaker C | 1865 | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Bowles, Samuel | Our New West. Records of travel between the Mississippi & the Pacific. Over the plains--over the mountains...l | 1869 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Bowles, Samule, 1826-78 | The Pacific railroad--open. How to go: what to see. Guide for travel to & through western America. | 1869 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Boyd, Thomas | Thomas Boyd Papers (1852-1854) (letter: voyage from Boston to San Francisco) | 1852-54 | Graphic Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Bradley, Glenn D. | The Story of the Pony Express [post office] | n.d. | Html | Free | HistTextArchiv |
Brooks, Noah | First Across the Continent | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS | |
Brooks, Noah | First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 [illus.] | 1901 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
Bryan, George W (b. ca. 1844) | The Lure of the Past, the Present & Future [also, RR jrny Ind. to Cal; urbanization] | 1911 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Bryant, Edwin | What I Saw in California: By Wagon from Missouri to California in 1847 | 2001 | Adobe eBook | 7.95 | NarrativePr |
Bryant, Edwin, 1805-1869 | What I saw in California [via South Pass of the Rocky Mountains; great desert basin] | 1848 | Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
Bryce, George (1844-1931) | Sketch of the Life & Discoveries of Robert Campbell, chief factor in the Hudson's Bay Company [Yukon & Alaska] | 1898 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Bunting, James Lovett | Diaries, 1857-1920 [Mormon missionary & pioneer; Black Hawk War, 1866] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Burdett, Charles, (b. 1815) | Life of Kit Carson: the great western hunter & guide; exploits as a hunter & trapper, Rocky Mountains; among I | 1869] | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Burroughs, Raymond Darwin, 1899- | The Natural History Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition | 1995 | NetLibr (Ebsco) | 19.95 | MichStUPr |
Burton, Richard Francis (Sir) | The city of the saints & across the Rocky Mountains to California | 1861 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Burton, Richard Francis (Sir) | The city of the saints, & across the Rocky mountains to California | 1862 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
California Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the California Acad. of Sci....Given to the Captain & Officers of the Jeannette Search Expediti | 1881 | Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
Campbell, Robert | A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1825-1835 [Rocky Mtns; Y | 1836/1955 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Carbutt, Mrs. E. H | Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada, Western US, & Mexico | 1889 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Carver, Jonathan | Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America for More Than 5000 Miles | 1789 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Catlin, George | Letters & Notes on the Manners, Customs, & Conditions of N.A. Indians [1832-] [fur trading; buffalo; Yellowsto | 1844 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Cauthorn, Benjamin Ross, b. 1840 | Trip to Montana by wagon train, 1865 Apr 14-Nov 9 [Mo. to Montana & Oregon; San Francisco & Panama] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Chandless, William | A visit to Salt Lake: A journey across the plains, & a residence in the Mormon settlements at Utah | 1857 | Graphic | Free | UMichigan |
Chittenden, Newton H | Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia | 1884 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Christman, Enos, 1828-1912 [frm Pa.] | One Man's Gold: The Letters & Journal of a Forty-Niner [journalist; gold prospecting] | 1930 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Churchill, Stillman, b. 1823 | Diary, 1849 (vol 1) [to Calif w/Sagamore & Calif. Mining & Trading Co] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Churchill, Stillman, b. 1823 | Diary, 1849 (vol 2) [to Calif w/Sagamore & Calif. Mining and Trading Co] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Clarke, A. B. (Asa Bement), 1817- | Travels In Mexico & California | 1988 | NetLibr (Ebsco) | 24.95 | TexasA&MUPr |
Clayton, William, 1814-1879 | The Latter-day Saints' emigrants' guide...from Council Bluffs, to the valley of the Great Salt Lake [trail gui | 1848 | Graphic | Free | BYU [LC] |
Clyman, James | A Short Detail of Life & Incidents of my trip in & through the Rocky Mountains [1824-29] | mss. 1870 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
Cobbey, John Furmes, 1827-1854 | Journal, 1850 [Mo. to Calif.; buffalo; Indian villages; mountain fever; geography & nature] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Coke, Henry John | A ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon & California...incl. the West Indies & Sandwich Isles | 1852 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 | Across the continent by overland stage in 1865 [Mo. to Calif; terrain; Ore., Nv.] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Cone, Gordon C., 1807-1882 | Diary, 1849-1850 [by ox team, Wisc to Calif.; indians; cholera; Salt Lake City; return to NY] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Cox, Ross | Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the Narrative...of Six Years on the Western...Rocky Mountains Amon | 1832 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Cox, Ross | The Columbia River: [v1] Residence of 6 Years on the Western side of the Rocky Mountains...Various Tribes of I | 1832 3edLon | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Cox, Ross | The Columbia River: [v2] Residence of 6 Years on the Western side of the Rocky Mountains...Various Tribes of I | 1832 3edLon | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
Cox, Ross 793-1853 | Adventures on the Columbia River: ... 6 years on the western side of the [Canadian] Rock[ies], among ... India | 1831 Lond. | Graphic | Free | UAlberta |
D'Wolf, John (1779-1872) | A Voyage to the North Pacific & a Journey Through Siberia ... [fur trade] | 1861 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
D'Wolf, John, 1779-1872 | A voyage to the North Pacific and a journey through Siberia more than half a century ago | 1861 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
Day, Alphonse B. | Diary,1849. Journal of the trip to Calif. [Mo. to Ore.; cholera, Mtn fever; Wyoming; Platte River] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Dean, Jonathan | Louis Shotridge, Museum Man: A 1918 Visit to the Nass & Skeena Rivers (Pacific NW Q.) | n.d. | Html | Free | UWashington |
Derby, George Horatio | Phoenixiana: or, Sketches & Burlesques [illus.] [of Mass.; grad West Point; led 3 explr in Calif; humorist] | 1903 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |